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Curse you, Cyanide & Happiness!

Mockery is good. Behold the #spaceape hypothesis: humans clearly evolved in outer space! #SPACEAPE Basic Arguments of the Space Ape Theory: 1. we have evolved big brains relative to our bodies because we don’t need our bodies to move around in space. 2. we don’t have much body hair because what would be the point of a few more follicles worth in 2.73 Kelvin (-270 Celsius)? 3. sinuses, far from being evolutionary spandrels, are little miniature internal space helmets. 4. our outsize eyes clearly show our relation to other species in space. It’s taking off on Twitter, too. Next time someone brings up the soggy monkey story, I’m just going to reply with “Space Ape!”

The BBC recently broadcast a program for the charity Comic Relief, but yanked one sketch deemed too offensive from their online iPlayer. They’d apparently received thousands of complaints about it, and it was the only sketch on the program found so horribly offensive. Apparently, regulators are now investigating the BBC, and the ever-charming Daily Mail is blustering that “BBC faces Ofcom probe into Rowan Atkinson’s foul-mouthed Comic Relief archbishop impression”. Rowan Atkinson? Foul-mouthed comic? Did they confuse him with Gilbert Gottfried or something? So I finally got a look at the ghastly wicked sketch, and now I see why it got people upset. Here it is: Oh, yeah, that’s some primo religion bashing. “Foul-mouthed” is the wrong word, though: Rowan Atkinson’s sin was being deadly accurate, perfectly portraying the cheerfully vapid fluttery chumminess of a thoroughly liberal Christian. That’s what got people angry: he didn’t just start roaring at religious leaders, he showed the viewers what they looked like through our eyes…and it was also so damned close to how the believers see them, too, that it wasn’t easily dismissed and was a palpable smack in the face. Excellent work, Rowan Atkinson!

I thought this was charming.

She’s Islamophobic!